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5 days ago
1 min

Trauma - Unconscious Armour

Trauma - Unconscious Armour. If we are present enough to what happens within our body in the moment a distressing event or trigger occurs...

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Matt Nettleton

Jul 9
1 min

Addiction - A Survival Pattern

Survival Patterns. Any attempt to change behavioural patterns that are symptomatic of trauma by using the force of will is impossible. Th...

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Matt Nettleton

Jul 9
4 min

Integrating Suppressed Anger.

Integrating Suppressed Anger. Anger is something that is quite often misunderstood. Anger is often deemed as bad, wrong, unkind, bad ener...

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Matt Nettleton

Jul 5
2 min

The Sacred Power of Anger

The Sacred Power of Anger. Before anger becomes anger, before we tell a story about it and project it outward in the form of blame and re...

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Matt Nettleton

Jul 5
2 min

A Fierce Desire for Truth.

A Fierce Desire for Truth. What is Truth? What can we know for certain? How much of what we think we know are just learnt assumptions, be...

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Matt Nettleton

Jun 4
2 min

Trauma, Surrender and the Survival Instinct

Trauma, Surrender and the Survival Instinct. Surrender is a concept widely used within the spiritual community, within 12 step programs, ...

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Matt Nettleton

May 26
3 min

When Healing Perpetuates Deficiency.

When Healing Perpetuates Deficiency. (When inquiry becomes self improvement) It seems working on one's triggers is a new thing. It seems ...

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Matt Nettleton

May 26
1 min

Gentle and Compassionate Stillness

Gentle and Compassionate Stillness As often as you remember, take gentle moments of stillness all through the day. Widen your awareness t...

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Matt Nettleton

May 19
2 min

Presence Is Not The Same As Being Present

Presence Is Not the Same as Being Present. Presence is what you are, but being present is something you do. Being Present implies a "doin...

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Matt Nettleton

May 7
1 min

Simply Noticing

Simply Noticing. Have you every allowed yourself to just simply notice? Without placing a demand, a judgement or a label, without interpr...

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Matt Nettleton

Apr 22
3 min

Questioning Our Reality

Questioning Our Reality. After a few weeks of working with clients who seem to be actively traumatising themselves with conspiracy theori...

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Matt Nettleton

Mar 12
1 min

Working with darkness.

Working with the darkness. I will not tell you not to panic, I will not tell you not to be frightened and not to worry, I will not comfor...

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Matt Nettleton

Feb 28
2 min

What Do You Really Want?

What do you really want? All the seeking... All the attempts to fix yourself... All the attempts to please others... All the running away...

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Matt Nettleton

Feb 27
2 min

Love And Wholeness

Love and Wholeness Underneath all the waves, the conditioned patterns of mind, the turbulent feelings of anxiety and pain and trauma exis...

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Matt Nettleton

Feb 14
2 min

Radical Self Honesty.

Radical Self Honesty. So often we are deceiving ourselves. We fool ourselves to the point that we believe our own lies, we believe oursel...

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Matt Nettleton

Feb 13
2 min

Aversion to Pain.

Our Aversion to Pain. We are all hooked up to seek pleasure and avoid pain. We do this to such an extent that we cause all kinds of probl...

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Matt Nettleton

Feb 10
2 min

What You Resist Persists

We have all heard the saying: "What you resist, persists." On some level we all know this to be true. But yet, just knowing this doesn't ...

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Matt Nettleton

Feb 5
2 min

Trauma is an adaptation, not a disorder.

Trauma is an adaptation, not a disorder. When we experience a conditioned reactive pattern, in other words a trauma trigger if we are pre...

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Matt Nettleton

Feb 5
3 min

The Compulsion To Abandon Yourself

After working with people one on one almost daily for the last number of years, and reflecting over my life and watching myself throughou...

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Matt Nettleton

Jan 28
2 min

Begin Where You Are.

Begin Exactly Where You Are. This moment, right now. Thats where you are, so thats what you work with, thats where you begin. Trust this ...

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